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FakeNoose

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13. If we have floods here it's usually in the feeder creeks and streams

Reply to JustABozoOnThisBus (Reply #11)

Sun May 25, 2025, 06:05 PM

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The big rivers - the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio - are normally controlled by dams and levees. The last flood we had in Pittsburgh was in 1995 that I can remember. Floodwater came as high as the parking lot at Three Rivers Stadium, but then it receded. It happened on account of an ice jam on the Ohio River and everything backed up. But that was kind of a fluke.

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